Category: Lifestyle & Culture

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Some albums arrive with a manifesto, bold and deliberate. Others, like English Teacher’s 2024 debut album This Could Be Texas, find their identity almost by accident, pieced together from fragments of different times, voices, and moods…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Over a decade ago, artist and activist Michelle Tylicki says she found herself in an open-cast coal mine, alongside a few thousand climate activists who had decided to shut the extractivist site down. It’s here, she…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Sally Rooney wasn’t able to travel to the UK to collect a literary prize this week because, if she did, she faced the threat of arrest, according to a statement read by her editor. Last month,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In the mid-90s, the long-awaited arrival of the information superhighway promised to transform the lives of people all over the world.  Though the average desktop hard drive stored just 500MB of data, and search engines like…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Welcome to the Fashion Week Photo Diary, a series where local photographers document the faces, places and parties surrounding their city’s catwalk shows. Fashion people want you to believe that fashion week is all about the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “This is more than just a music project,” presenter and host Lea Ogunlami tells us on our first night in Cavan, Ireland. “Get ready to listen, learn, experiment and step outside your comfort zone. Welcome to…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When Chinese photographer Trunk Xu first fell in love with street photography, he says the magic was in it being a stolen moment, with the subject usually unaware their photo was being taken. Today, everyone is…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This article was originally published on February 16, 2024 Back in the late 2000s, a magazine you might’ve heard of had occupied the frontlines of British fashion for almost two decades. At that time, being in…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It’s an intense day for Christopher Briney. We are speaking on the day of The Summer I Turned Pretty’s grand finale, and the actor’s face is filling up social media feeds around the world. There is…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Advice for incoming freshers can often be a little banal. From ‘do your assignments in good time’ to ‘use fairy lights to add a cosy vibe to your room’ to ‘make sure you sign up to…